Research

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Elisabeth Fall

Overview

UCSF School of Pharmacy faculty discoveries significantly impact the lives of the world's patients. Our research encompasses an entire spectrum, from understanding molecules at one end to ensuring the right patient receives the right medication at the other. Our scientists reveal the basic biochemical mechanisms of health and disease and explore molecular targets for new drugs. They both develop and share the leading technologies that enable their science. They drive the development of new medicines, medical devices, and diagnostic tests. And they investigate methodologies toward the safest, individualized, and most effective use of affordable, accessible medications for all patients.

Regardless of where their work falls along this spectrum, precise therapeutics is their common goal.